The Amalgamation Waltz puzzles Beasley’s diverse sculptural work ranges

Beasley’s diverse sculptural work ranges from compositions of shredded T-shirts

where each thread is dyed individually and then woven into the rug to create a blurred effect

insert into decanter

Sterling silver earrings cast from found lucky stones

1989 to Today

The Amalgamation Waltz puzzles Beasley’s diverse sculptural work rangesTavia Nyong'o At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scrutinizing widely diverse textsarchival, musical, visual, and theatricalTavia Nyongo traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on